European Central Bank

ECB deposit facility rate

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2.50%

+0.25 pp last change (15 Sep 2026)

As of 17 Sep 2026 | Daily (Euro area policy rate; changes on Governing Council decision days)

Mean
1.10%
Median
1.00%
Min
-0.50% 18 Sep 2019
Max
4.00% 20 Sep 2023
DateRate
17 Sep 20262.50
31 Aug 20262.25
31 Jul 20262.25
30 Jun 20262.25
31 May 20262.00
30 Apr 20262.00
31 Mar 20262.00
28 Feb 20262.00
31 Jan 20262.00
31 Dec 20252.00
30 Nov 20252.00
31 Oct 20252.00
30 Sep 20252.00
31 Aug 20252.00
31 Jul 20252.00
30 Jun 20252.00
31 May 20252.25
30 Apr 20252.25
31 Mar 20252.50
28 Feb 20252.75
31 Jan 20253.00
31 Dec 20243.00
30 Nov 20243.25
31 Oct 20243.25

About the ECB deposit facility rate

The ECB deposit facility rate is the euro area headline policy rate since September 2024 (FM.D.U2.EUR.4F.KR.DFR.LEV). Current: 2.50% on 17 Sep 2026. Germany, France, Italy and other euro-area countries share this single ECB series.

From 1 Jan 1999 to 17 Sep 2026 (10,122 observations): mean 1.10%, median 1.00%; low -0.50% (18 Sep 2019), high 4.00% (20 Sep 2023). Source: ECB statistics. Not a mortgage or deposit rate.

Source: ECB Data Portal, FM.D.U2.EUR.4F.KR.DFR.LEV (deposit facility). Licence: ESCB statistics reuse policy: free reuse with attribution; do not modify (Source: ECB statistics) (terms). Files: data/raw/ecb-deposit-facility.csv.

Reading this series

The ECB deposit facility rate is the interest rate the European Central Bank pays on overnight deposits from banks, and since September 2024 it has been the euro area's headline policy rate. It comes from the ECB Data Portal series FM.D.U2.EUR.4F.KR.DFR.LEV, with a daily record from 1999. The ECB Governing Council sets it at its monetary-policy meetings, so the chart is stepped at those decisions. Germany, France, Italy, Ireland and the euro-area desk all share this single ECB series; the site does not invent separate national policy rates for them.

Read the headline with its as-of date, then the "versus the previous reading" line; where the rate has been unchanged, the page surfaces the date of the last actual move. Mean, median, low and high are arithmetic summaries of the daily readings in this build. The range buttons filter what is drawn, and Chart and Table show the same series in two forms. The deposit facility is a central-bank policy rate, not a mortgage or deposit rate; the separate €STR page covers the euro overnight market rate instead.

About this desk

The Korea desk leads with the Bank of Korea Base Rate, the policy rate set by the Monetary Policy Board, then the US federal funds rate, Japan's policy rate and the ECB deposit facility, with the rest following. The Base Rate is read from the Bank's published change list and shown as a daily step series from 1999. It is the policy anchor for Korean money-market rates, not a retail lending rate.

All desks show the same official series in a different order; the figures do not change with the desk. Values are republished without alteration, and each page names the source and licence. The build publishes no Korean mortgage or deposit rate, because no official series is ingested — that page is absent rather than estimated. This is not financial advice, and readings may lag their source.